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Episode 93: Doug and Stacee Goetzinger (https://www.speakoutloud.me/) Part 2

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Doug and Stacee continue sharing more about Stacee’s suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalization.  They also talk about their family and how Stacee’s struggle impacted their daughters. Stacee says she couldn’t be the mom she wanted to be and had journals full of self-hatred writing in them. Stacee’s eating disorder returned, which resulted in the church where Doug was a pastor asking them to leave.  Stacee emphasized how important it is that when people need help they are not dismissed and that churches need to figure out how to help those struggling instead. Stacee’s eating disorder was so severe that her mental health team told her they could no longer treat her because she was becoming a liability and that she needed in-patient treatment. This episode concludes with Stacee recalling her in-patient treatment experience at Laureate Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma (https://www.saintfrancis.com/laureate) lasted for several months, beginning with a seven-week stint in the ICU. Doug gives Stacee tremendous credit for staying in the program and working hard on her recovery.